Benjamin Edes Quotes & Sayings

Love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny. — Diane Ackerman

Only those with no ambition and the inability to truly understand power are happy without it. They live in their little bubbles, never suspecting that there is more in the world. They are content to just exist. I want to do more than exist; I want to create, to destroy, to evolve." ~Lorsan — Quinn Loftis

Now he is certainly sailing above, he on whom my wishes hang, and in whose hand I should like to lay my life's happiness. I will dare everything to win him and an immortal soul. — Hans Christian Andersen

Jeremiah 1:4-5 - 'Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart....' ...God knew me before He made me. — Francis Chan

To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget. — Jostein Gaarder

It's all about one split-second. Boxing is a funny thing. You blink your eyes and somebody says good night to you. — Kostya Tszyu

I think the job of writing and literature is to encourage each one of us to believe that we're living in a story. — Naomi Shihab Nye

While armchair travelers dream of going places, traveling armchairs dream of staying put. — Anne Tyler

The least-bad scenario is a hard landing, global recession worse than the 1930s. The worst-case borrows from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: war, famine, pestilence and death. — Kenneth S. Deffeyes

Director Park asking that if there was a pocket on one side of the piece of clothing then there should be a pocket on the other side. They were a little uncomfortable to wear, yes, because there were a lot of tight, high-waisted things so it was great at the end of the day to slip into some pajamas! — Mia Wasikowska

He was like drinking sweetened coffee: a slow warmth that seeped into you and a buzz that built even slower. — Lori Jenessa Nelson

I'm a doer, and whether it was the tsunami in Sri Lanka or the earthquake in Indonesia, I was always saying, I should be there; I should be helping out. — Paul Walker

Given my upbringing and my life in general, it's not so hard to imagine that my mind would capsize eventually. — Phillip DePoy

The punch that knocks a man out is the punch that he doesn't see. — Cus D'Amato